Rebirth of the Godly Prodigal

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

50 million wasn’t a large amount to him, but it wasn’t small either. This was half a year of Bei Yuanqing’s pocket money, so he was going to be short on money for a short period now.

“That’s right.” Hong Dali shrugged and said, “See? I never say that it was a martial arts secret. I didn’t want to sell it also, but you insisted on buying it, and now you say that I lied to you—speaking of which, you are a member of the royal family, can you not make such a joke?”

“You!” Bei Yuanqing was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood and squeezed out these words from between his clenched teeth. “Hong Dali, this isn’t over! It isn’t over! You wait and see, you wait!”

Hong Dali looked at him in despise and said, “I sold it to you out of kindness and you don’t appreciate it!?”

“Appreciate!? What do I have to appreciate for!?” Bei Yuanqing violently threw the book on the floor, turned his head and left. “I thought why there was the word ‘painting’ on the cover, this is just pornographic paintings, damn it! What monsters battling, you said that on purpose, damn you! On purpose! Which part of the images looked like monsters!? Which part!?”

Porn… Pornography!? This means that Bei Yuanqing spent 50 million to buy a pornography book!?

Everyone laughed hard. Tang Muxin even hugged her stomach and squatted on the floor, slapping the floor as she laughed. “Hahahaha, Dali, you are really capable. You actually sold a pornography book for as high as 50 million!”

As for Hua Xiangyu, her face was bright red and she softly said, “Big Bro Dali is really… Impressive!”

Bei Yuanqing’s face was green, and Zhu Ningyu was clenching her teeth too. They had both shamed themselves today in front of Hua Xiangyu!

Spending 50 million to buy a pornography book, if word of this got out, it would be the taint on their names for the rest of their lives!

But even though they were angry, they wouldn’t dare to really attack Hong Dali.

After all, all of them were from the royal family. The small quarrels and fights between the younger generation were still acceptable, but making true enemies of one another was not allowed. Therefore, even though Hong Dali was just a normal person, Bei Yuanqing didn’t dare to directly beat him up too. If not, once the Old Madam from the Hong Family found out, he would definitely be in big trouble. This wasn’t a joke.

“Hong Dali, you wait, this isn’t over!” Bei Yuanqing walked away. “Not over! You dared to fool me, I will make sure to teach you a lesson!”

Seeing Bei Yuanqing and Zhu Ningyu leaving just like that and not even taking the book with them, Hong Dali didn’t mind at all. He picked up the book and chased after them. “Hey, Old Bei, how can you anyhow throw this away? This is a treasure worth 50 million, throwing it on the floor will pollute the environment. What if you had hit a small kid when you throw it? Even if you didn’t hit a small kid, it wouldn’t be good if you had damaged the plants… Hey, Old Bei, why are you in such a rush to leave? Old Bei!?”

Bei Yuanqing and Zhu Ningyu were really depressed now and couldn’t stay any longer. If not, they would definitely die from anger! In just a short instance, they had disappeared from Hong Dali’s sight.

“Sigh, speaking of which, they really are prodigals.” Hong Dali helplessly shook his head and said, “They threw away something worth 50 million just like that, they are indeed rich…”

Everyone else’s mouths all twitched violently—Hong the swindler indeed lives up to his name, he could even sell someone a pornography book for 50 million! It’s no wonder that this fellow never lacked money. This is because he doesn’t earn money, he’s practically robbing!

Actually, by this moment, it was a good time to continue walking around and squandering. Unexpectedly, Hong Dali was flipping through the book again for fun, but he suddenly felt strange and asked, “Hu, this is strange, there seem to be words in this book. Let me see what’s written on it…”

There were actually words on a pornography book? The others were all curious and gathered around to take a look. They didn’t care about the images of the monsters battling but just looked towards the spot that Hong Dali was looking at. That spot was originally the title page of the book, but perhaps because of the sweat from Bei Yuanqing’s palms just now when he was agitated, some words had appeared there.

The words were very blurred and looked like they were going to disappear again. Tang Muxin hurriedly said, “Li Yang, bring water here.”

“Okay!” Seeing that something interesting was going to happen, Li Yang quickly brought back some water. Then, Tang Muxin softly dropped some water on the title page and spread it eventually. Now, the words were finally clear enough to make out. Hong Dali slowly read: “It is said that Cangyi Mountain is surrounded by four continents, thirteen mountains, and thirteen seas, this make up one world. Mastering the first level of this martial arts will enable the cultivator to slash apart one world. 3,000 worlds can be considered a small universe, mastering the second level of this martial arts can slash apart one small universe. 3,000 small universes can be considered one big universe! Mastering the third level of this martial arts can slash apart the big universe!”

What the heck, what kind of martial arts manual was this!? It sounded so extremely awesome, didn’t it?

They continued to read on. The words after that were some technical terms used in cultivating, and Hong Dali didn’t understand what they meant. Of course, this wasn’t important, all of them were holding their breath trying to find the name of this martial arts. Very quickly, Tang Muxin loudly said, “There it is!”

That spot was at a part of the image that depicted an embarrassing posture. The girls’ faces all turned red, but Hong Dali didn’t mind that and read word by word: “Consumption of the Sky Dominates the World Mediation Painting…”

Tang Muxin: “…”

Li Nianwei: “…”

Hua Xiangyu: “…”

The rest: “…”

What a long name!

“Dali!” Tang Muxin’s eyes shone golden light. “This martial arts secret manual must definitely be very powerful. Shall we practice it after we go back?”

“Huh? Practice this?” Hong Dali’s eyes were shining golden light too. He pointed at the posture of the monsters battling and asked, “Practice this posture?”

“I am going to kill you!” The girls were all bashful. Tang Muxin’s face was extremely red and stepped on Hong Dali’s foot. “Go die!”

Of course, although this “Consumption of the Sky Dominates the World Mediation Painting” seemed to be extremely awesome, it was still an unknown if they could really achieve what the book said if they practiced it. However, this was a martial arts secret manual, after all. If the writer didn’t exaggerate on it, who would know whether it was impressive or not? Hong Dali’s plan was to practice it first then see the results!

Yet, just as they were laughing and playing around, the System in Hong Dali’s mind suddenly sounded out!

The System: “The Host has come into contact with the martial arts from the Cultivator’s universe for the first time. Appraisal in process, please wait…”

What the heck! This is really from the Cultivator’s universe? Hong Dali was really shocked this time! A Cultivator’s secret manual! Longevity, eternal youth, able to fly, train in sex with a partner and such… Brouhahaha!

Very quickly, the System’s appraisal had come out. “Consumption of the Sky Dominates the World Mediation Painting, originally named ‘Three Realms Sword Record’, is an Earth-level martial art out of the four levels, which is Yellow, Blue, Earth, and Sky-level. A Cultivator at the level of ‘Refining Spirit Into Emptiness’ can practice this secret manual.”

“In the Cultivator’s universe, their levels are split into four main levels. The first level is, Refining Essence Into Qi, the second level is Refining Qi Into Spirit, the third level is Refining Spirit Into Emptiness, and the fourth level is Refining Emptiness Into Tao. Each of the four main levels can be further split into three stages.”

“Out of these four levels, Refining Essence Into Qi corresponds to the Planet-level, Refining Qi Into Spirit corresponds to Stellar-level, Refining Spirit Into Emptiness corresponds to Star Sector-level, and Refining Emptiness Into Tao corresponds to Astral-level.”

Hong Dali finally understood this time.

The martial arts from the Cultivator’s universe sounded very awesome, but it was actually about the same as that on this universe. The first level, like Planet-level, was very common. The second level, like Stellar-level, was considered to be quite strong. Then, the levels after that were considered powerful. The third level, like Star Sector-level, was normally the strongest few in their area. The last level, Astral-level, definitely only existed one or two such people in one Astral and was very hard to be seen.

Basically, he had spent one million and purchased something equivalent to a Star Sector-level secret manual…

Then again, he didn’t buy it for one million dollars, it should be said that Bei Yuanqing that country bumpkin gave him 49 million dollars plus a Star Sector-level secret manual…

Hong Dali reckoned that if Bei Yuanqing knew of this, he would probably be so depressed that he would commit suicide, brouhahaha!

Actually, Hong Dali thought that this was all for today. He had already gained quite a lot of benefits today. Yet, before he started walking away, the System’s voice actually sounded again—

“Martial arts secret manual has been archived. Parsing restructuring in progress, please wait…”

Huh, it can actually be archived? This is a good function. But what is this parsing restructuring!? What situation is this?

Very quickly, the System gave the results. “Parsing complete, the secret manual has been altered into a skill that the Host can use. Please name this skill. Friendly reminder: This is a sword technique, the Host can give this skill a nice-sounding sword technique name.”

What the heck! What the heck!! What the heck!!!

The System is so awesome!? It can parse a secret manual and then directly use it? I must definitely give this skill a domineering name to suit my identity as a prodigal!

“Monsters Battle Sword Technique!” Hong Dali gave the sword technique this name without even considering it. “It shall be called Monsters Battling Sword Technique!”

The System: “…”

It could be seen that even the System was quite depressed. It should have just used the original name for this skill instead of asking Hong Dali to name it…

“Monsters Battle Sword Technique renamed successfully.” The System started to introduce the use of this skill. “This skill is split into three levels. Level one has an attack power of 120,000. It sacrifices 5 stats from each attribute to cut through a Planet-level space carrier. Level two has an attack power of 360,000. It sacrifices 10 stats from each attribute to cut through a Stellar-level Space Carrier. Level three has an attack power of 1,080,000. It’s able to cut through a Star Sector-level Space Carrier. Friendly reminder one: Sword-type equipment needed. Friendly reminder two: The weapon must be durable enough to execute the move.”

Yup, the cost isn’t very great, but it’s quite powerful. Not bad.

Although from the wording, it says cut through, which means that it can break through the defense, but the third level can cut through the armor of a Star-sector level space carrier. The power of that move is definitely very big. It’s no wonder that the book says that the third level can slash apart one big universe. It seems that it isn’t an exaggeration…

Hong Dali laughed loudly. “Hahaha. Okay, let’s go back now, we have gained quite a lot today!”

Everyone grinned and nodded. “Indeed, not bad, haha! Let’s go back now!”

For this time’s walk, Hong Dali had a total gain of one valuable helmet, one Star Sector-level secret manual, and 49 million dollars of pocket money…